The Case of the Missing Characters

[kwhiskerz{]

On February 1, 2007, Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 19:39 -0700, kuiskers wrote:
> > I've decided to use my favourite email program, kmail, which I use
> > always. I only use those online email sites for chatting on forums and
> > lists, as I am wary about contaminating my provider account with spam. I
> > had to create an email alias with my provider - yes, another identity!
> > alas! - but at least I don't have to go to a web site to write, which is
> > easier.
>
> You're using Linux, you can use your own machine to handle all the
> different accounts.  You can use fetchmail to pull in mail from several
> addresses, and drop it all into you local mailbox.  You can subscribe to
> things using some webmail service, but you don't have to use it for your
> replies.  You can just enter the address details for it into your mail
> client.
>

Hey, I never thought of that! It is fantastic. I just checked and yahoo has 
pop. I think gmail does, too. Apparently, hotmail only offers it if you pay, 
that's what the help says.

Is there another way to access hotmail to get it to your own computer?

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